Application Group Signaling Control for Wireless Network Traffic
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Solution Overview
Problem
The increasing use of applications on user equipment (UE) that require frequent signaling leads to network traffic overload, known as a 'signaling storm,' resulting in reduced battery life and poor network connectivity due to constant state transitions and resource overburden.
Innovation Solution
Assigning applications to groups based on signaling requirements and implementing connection parameters such as shared transmission delay timers to limit and prioritize network signaling, allowing for concurrent signaling and reducing unnecessary transitions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If applications perform frequent signaling with the network, then application functionality is improved, but network traffic increases causing signaling storms and battery depletion
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple applications are grouped together and share a common transmission delay timer instead of each application having its own timer. This consolidation reduces the total number of timers and associated signaling events, directly addressing the network traffic overload problem while preserving individual application functionality through group-based management.
Solution Approach 2:
The shared transmission delay timer serves multiple applications simultaneously, making a single timer resource universal across the application group. This multi-functional approach allows the system to manage signaling for multiple applications with a single timer mechanism, reducing overall signaling storm impact.
2Speed
If applications frequently transition network connection states, then application responsiveness is improved, but battery power is depleted
Solution Approach 1:
Applications share a common transmission delay timer that governs their collective connection state transitions. By merging timer resources, the system reduces the frequency of individual application-triggered state transitions, thereby reducing battery consumption while maintaining group-level responsiveness.
3Productivity
If multiple applications signal concurrently, then individual application performance is improved, but network resources are overburdened
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple application signaling operations into a group-level operation managed by a shared timer. This consolidation simplifies network resource management by reducing the number of independent signaling events, directly addressing the resource burden problem while maintaining application performance through group-based coordination.
Solution Approach 2:
Applications are segmented into groups based on their signaling characteristics and requirements. This segmentation allows the system to apply different timer sharing strategies to different groups, optimizing resource allocation while preventing any single group from overwhelming network resources.
Data Source
AI summary
A UE comprising a transmitter configured to transmit data from a network; and a processor coupled to the transmitter and configured to execute an application that performs signaling with a wireless network via the transmitter, determine that the application is assigned to an application group based on signaling requirements of the application, and determine that the application group is associated with a connection parameter that limits network signaling of all applications in the group, and initiate a network signaling link for the application according to the connection parameter.